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  • Or something - using only a copy of the Riot Act between himself and the rabble's bullets.

    The Very Mad Richard Dadd 2009

  • Or something - using only a copy of the Riot Act between himself and the rabble's bullets.

    The Very Mad Richard Dadd 2009

  • Or something - using only a copy of the Riot Act between himself and the rabble's bullets.

    September 2009 2009

  • Tell everyone that no 'gatekeeper' credentials means the rabble's opinions are worthless.

    Yet another hissy fit ... Frank Wilson 2007

  • An unforgiving course would become the rabble's best friend, its vehicle of retribution, its temporary equalizer in a caste system demanding the paupers to remain in a mummified state of stillness and silence while the princes steady their precious little hands.

    USATODAY.com - Humility is par for this course 2003

  • Alvaro de 'Alvari and Gismondo Santi looked at each other in alarm, and the intrepid old statesman, in whose heart no pang of fear had been awakened by the rabble's threatening bay, changed colour as he heard that order given.

    Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Sir Gilbert was somewhere out of sight when you related the rabble's brilliant victory, but he dashed out red in face when he understood and never stopped until he jumped into his motor.

    Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

  • But there was a worse spectacle than this -- worse by far than fire and smoke, or even the rabble's unappeasable and maniac rage.

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

  • Without the concurrence of his ministers, or the assistance of the civil magistrate, he put the soldiers in motion, and saved the town from calamities, such as a rabble's government must naturally produce. '

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Ne'er seek: but still thy noble ends pursue, Unconquer'd by the rabble's venal voice.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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